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SEVENTY-THIRD ' YEAR
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Hell Only Word Which De
picts Scene in Tokio Dur
ing Earthquake Says Ac
count SHOCK CAME EARLY
V IN DAY SAYS REPORT
Correspondent of Honolulu
'Paper Tells of Crazed
,. 'Refugees
TOMIOKA. Japan. Sept.; 7.
(Via, Radio Corporation of Amcr-
Jea to the Associated , Press.)
. , Three, American destroyers ar
" rived In "Yokohama - at noon - yes
terday and took 300 Americans
aboard. 'V'.';: . I T
Pestilence Threatened
LONDON, Sept. 6.A Central
News dispatch from Kobe dated
today says: . ' i .
' "It Is reported here ' but : not
confirmed that cholera has brok
en out in Yokohama. This prob
ably is true, since the people, are
drinking muddy- water from the
ditches and eating foul food to
stave off starvation. ' '
A spread of pestilence would
-Increase the difficulties of relief
work, as otherwise supplying food
and shelter would be compara
tively easy. , r ;
i HONOLULU, Sept. 6. (By the
' Associated Presi) No. other word
but "hell" canJdeplct, the scene in
Tokio during and after the earth
quake, according Jto thfe Tokio
correspondent of the Hawaii Shin
po, who today sent from Sen-
.dai Japan, an eye witness' stovy
"of'the"di8aster.
. , "The first great quake'came'at
:;il.S5 a. m. Saturday last," the
correspondent said. It was with
mt"warnln. "Mosr of the build
Ines of Tokio collapsed at the first
shock. The center of the quake
seemed to be in Tokio and. Man
Asawa. lut It was felt throughout
-the entire region between Nagoya
on the southwest and Aomori on
the north, a region comprising Vir
tually the northeastern, half of
the Island of Hondo. .
Landslide Conies First
"The' earthquake was preceded
by a tremendous landslide along
tbe Sagami coast. 'Fires which
'followed in the wake of the
lauake were partially due to the in
'cendiarism of Koreans -who : ap
plied torches to alien buildings.
"With the nroclamatlon of mar
tlal law, General Fakuda was ap
pointed emergency commander of
sthe Tokio area, f Admiral Noma-
'guchi, commander of the. sYoko
suka naval base .was appointed
commander of the area Including
Yokohama and Ypkosuka. t ,
i ''Among the dead are Baron Y.
Matsuoka. member jot the privy
'council; Baron Y. Sonoda. mem
ber of the Imperial council. f
Tokio Living Hell ,
! "After the earthquake Tokio
was a living hell. Craxed, horri
fied , refugees stormed the parks
Ito escape the flames. ' Those who
were too slow or too weak from
I exhaustion - and excitement were
.'soon overtaken - by the flames
: which- engulfed Hkem. The fire
snread with i remarkable rapidity.
In the chaos and pandemon
ium cMldreni were torn from their
parents and wives from their husr
tbandsT , -The surviving populace
?ratt wildly about," helter skelter.
'Their screeching mingled with the
'crackling of mountainous flames,
explosions and other thunderous
'noises.. -
Bodies Strew Streets
"In a short time thousands of
bodies were strewn about the
streets. The imperial gardens
and the military barracks through
"out the city were opened to refu
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THE WEATHER
OREGON; Friday fair and
continued, warm
Local Weather:
" : (Thursday) ,
Maxlmuin' temperature, 92.
Minimum temperature, ; 52.
Rainfall,"0.
River, 1.6.
Atmosphere, clear.
Wind, northwest.
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RED CROSS ILL
CALL MEETING
Salem Relief Committee to
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Discuss Japanese nia ai
Chamber Today
t .
. The relief committee of Wil-'
lametfe 'chapiter, American 1 Red
Cross will meet this morning in
the Chamber of Commerce rooms
to consider ways and means of
mfeeting J the . Marion-Polk county
quota for Japanese relief. Dr.
B, P." Poind is chairman of the re
lief committee.
Other j members of the com
mittee are" Mrs. E. E. Fisher, Mrs!
W. Carlton Smith. U. G. Shipley,
William I Gahlsdorf and Frank
Wrightman.
The quota for, Willamette chap
ter, 'which Included' Marion- and
Polk counties was fixed at $10,
050 by San Francisco headquar
ters.. .The, chapter is authorized
to appropriate funds from what it
has oh hand, according to the
message received Wednesday night
by H. W. Meyers, president of the
local chapter of the Red Cross.
f The relief fund being raised
now in the state is part of the 5,
000,000 fund being raised in the
United States for the relief of the
Japanese earthquake victims.
1
IS GALLED FAKIR
Negro Who Appeared Before
Salem Audience in Mult
nomah County Jail v
Charged with swindling hund
reds of his race through a fake
benevolent society. Prince Wlzz
ward Solomon Jeremiah Chal
loughhidzilegise, negro scion of a
one-time royal family of Uganda,
British East Africa, is in the Mult
nomah county jail. . He addressed
a Salem I audience several months
ago.- " .i!'--''-'.-'-.'--
Immigration huthorities, be
cause of whose investigation " the
prince is now in jail, claim that
he has operated in Canada, Illi
nois, Oklahoma, Michigan. Colo
rado and California, and was
starting to operate in, Oregon with
his, ''International EthiopianRes
cue and ; ; Relief Conference of
South Dakota." y i
He -has delivered ' several lec
tures before Portland and Salem
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STATE PRISON
HELlP WANTED
SIGN IS OUT
Warden: Smith Says 1 He
Thinks He'll Borrow Some
Labor From Walla Walla
"So acute is the labor shortage
at the state prison that I am think
ing of writing to Walla l Walla
where I understand they have 500
idle prisoners," Warden Johnson
Smith said yesterday. 'A I
"In all seriousness," the : war
den continued, "we need; about
100 men at present. We could
use at least 50 to help harvest the
Lake Labish hemp crop while all
activities within the prison are be
ing slowed up on-account of the
lack of labor. " All outside men
have been called back t the pri
son, including those at work at
the' fairgrounds, the tuberculosis
hospital and the wood camps. The
men from the logging camp may
be next."
MEADE ELLIOTT
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Willamette Students to Do
Part-Time Service in Y
: Boys' Department :
The resignation of Meade , El
liott, boys' work secretary of the
Salem 'YMCA, was presented and
accepted at a meeting of ,the
board bf directors yesterday. It
was said that the work that has,
been done by Mr. Elliott will be
done temporarily - by J part-time
service from students of Willam
ette university.
It was announced that the six
months for which the federal gov
ernment appropriated money to
maintain a branch of the federal
employment service at the Salem
association ' had expired, and , so
successful lias been the bureau
that a resolution was adopted
calling upon the ' government to
make the . bureau permanent - In
Salem. Secretary C. A. Kelts sub
mitted a report showing that last
month 672 persons were furnish
ed employment through the bu
reau, and that the demand - for
laborers is as big as ever. ; It is
mainly for farm . labor.
The directors voted ;to put on
the -annual financial campaign the
first 1 week in October. Simul
taneously there will be a campaign
to raise money' to pay off an ant-
standing amount of $8500 that Is
duei en the association's new lot
on Court street. The regular as
sociatlon budget has not yt been'
fiESIEiS PLAGE
Jld Trail ; .
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Ezra Meeker, famous pioneer,
who has crossed the United States
repeatedly, by ox-team J first j 71
years ago, and later by automo
bile, was in Salem yesterday to
confer with Governor Pierce 're
lative to a project Mr4 Meeker
has launched to preserve the his
tory of the Oregon trail: In films.
The governor was not in the cUy,
however, and . Mr.. Meker tre
turned to Portland where he bad
an appointment with the! Progres
sive Business Men's club: j.
; Mr. Meeker, who Js "D3 years
old, is president of the Pioneers
of America, Inc., which has head
quarters In New York city, j
"How old are youT" Mr. Meek
er was asked yesterday, j .
"I rather olifect to that ques
tion," replied Mr. Meeker, "but I
don't mind being asked! my age.
1 am 93, but don't feel old at all."
The pioneer is devoting himself
to the Oregon trail filming, pro
ject, but wants It done accurately
and without fiction woven into
the narrative. He objects to the
Emerson Hough story, "The Cov
ered Wagon," beause of the flc-'
tion accompanying it. , -
Seventy-one years! ago, Ezra
Meeker, . accompanied I by his
young wife and, child, traversed
the Oregon Trail with an ox team
and safely reached the; Oregon
country, where he settled as a
farmer in that portion of it cre
ated as Washington 'Territory in
1853. Mr. Meeker, the Only man
how living. It is believed, who as
an adult participated In founding
the commonwealth known as - the
state of Washington, is in vigor
ous health at 93. In addition to
his first trip in fS 5 2, he crossed
over the Oregon, Trail with an ox
team in 1906-07. and again in
1910-11. erecting granite monu
ments to preserve the memory of
the pioneers who traversed it.1
ito man in the nation, , from
personal experience,1 can portray
more accurately the scenes of
pioneer days on the Oregon Trail,
than can Mr. Meeker. He has re
corded these scenes with" fidelity
In various volumes, with an eye
single to historical accuracy. The
latest of these, an epitome of the
whole, has been, edited by Profes
sor Howard R. Driggs and pub
lished by 'World Book Company,
Yonkers. New York, under the
title of "Ox-Team Days! on thm
Oregon Trail."
The Pioneers of America. Inc.;
thas been formed for the special
purpose of portraying In moving
pictures, with the same fidelity to
historical accuracy showbby Mr.
Meeker in his written -works, the
scenes on this great world's high
way,' the Oregon Trail, and pion
eer incidents and experiences re
sulting in the expansion of the
nation to thePacific. - j (
Mr,' Meeker has for years been
collecting, information ion this
great theme from ail jarailable
sources, and has placed the accu
mulated data in the hands of this
corporation for the purpose , of
producing the - film referred to;
and he will cooperate 'with the
corporation to make Jt a standard
work of history in moTing pic
tures. .' : l ' '
Realizing - the responsibility
resting with the organization and
the importance of the work, the
scenes will be re-enacted wherever
possible 'upon the spot ; where the
incidents represented occurred.
It is ' considered by many histori
ans a marvelous -drama that
should be preserved 'and handed
down to future generations, and
it is the purpose of this organiza
tion to present this history 'with
fidelity, that the future - citizens
may know of the straggles of the
pioneers . who made possible the
greater nation by advancing the
boundary to the - Pacific.
Midwest 'Asks That Nation
Purchase Flourf or 'Japan
OMAHA, Neb. Sept. 6. In a
telegram -signed by the -Omaha
Bee, addressed to ; President Cal
vin Coolidge today, the newspaper
associates "the dire need of Japan
with the emergency of the farm
ers of the grain belt and - urges
that an ' immediate ' purchase of
flour on : a : larse scale i he made
by the government for the relief
of Japan. I
BY WITNESSES
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Military Court Holds Investi
gation Following! Many
Terrible Floggings in Dis
trict . '
BRUTAL REFRAIN LED
ALWAYS TO KU KLUX
Counsellor Says Full Story
of Savagery Will ' Never 1
Be Told ,
OKLAHOMA. Okia.. Sept. C.
By the Associated Press). Un,
folding the "story of Tulsa," j
gleaned from sworn testimony
taken before a military court,
Aldrich Blake, executive council
lor, presented to the press tonight
an account of some of the brutal
floggings that led Governor J. C.
Walton to invoke martial law In
Tulsa county. - r:. .
Detailing's series of whippings,
only a few of .those' that have
spread 'terror for more .than a
year3 in many Tulsa homes, Mr.
Blake said: , '
V 'Phi.Miirh (ha 1 9AA nn vu tf
testimony runs the same brutal
retrain. :. It's always the klan or
some members of the klan. k
I 1 No Aliens Accused
' "In ' every case thus' far exam
ined, except two which have noV
proceeded very tar, the evidence
has' led straight . to' the doorstep
of i the Invisible, empire, known as
the jKnights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Net an alien has been accused;
not ! a breath of suspicion against
a single Tulsa citizen except mem
bers of the imperial organization.
"-"No arrests had ever been made
until.-: the military court con
vened," he said. "Except in one
or "two instances were the police
called and Immediately returned
to the station, no investigation
has fever been made of any one
of these dozens of other eases
nowj under investigation. TJiis is
according . to . the i sworn testi
mony." . i ., ., . r ' . .
, , I Only First Chapter Told '
Declaring that the expose was
only the firBt chapter of the
"Btory,".the executive counsellor
promised revelation in the near
future of "other phases of ..the
conflict between- visible and In
Visible government."
.' , "'The whole story of Tulsa will
never ; be ; told." ; he said. "Men'
fleet' from savagery 'and torture.
Scores of Tulsa victims fled. The
average , man Is pretty apt to
chaage his address' after, his skin
has? been whipped until it is raw
and;, then he is threatened with
death if he tells. That is exactly
what happened in Tulsa, not once
but fmany times. Say fifty times,
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Resolution Asks City Council to Act Money
I Appropriated for Rooming - Bureau "During
the State Fair Qrn and Industrial !Show
i Voted Want Employment Bureau Rept.
. i At a special meeting jof the board of directors of the
Salem Chamber i of Commerce held last night the question
of handling rooms for visitors during the : state fair was
settled and a booth will be run at; the Marion hotel during
fair week and for several days before, to list rooms and
supply all visitors with rooms
Manager Al Pierce of the Mar
ion hotel : agreed to contribute a
portion of the expense and to al
low, the booth to be conducted in
tho lobby of the hotel. ': The cham
ber accepted the proposal, and ap
propriated the funds necessary , to
conduct the' booth, and see that
all visitors are properly cared for.
The .booth will be in charge of
Mrs.' Emma Murphy-Brown, -
BSC FIRE YESTEMY
DRYERS ;0
DAMAGING HUE
Rickards Garage and Four
Residences Destroyed
Late Yesterday
CORVADL.1S, Or., Sept. 6.
(Special to The Statesman.)
Rickards garage was completely
destroyed by fire this evening fol
lowing an explosion in .the rear
of the building. The fire spread
to nearby property. Four resi
dences were included in the prop
erty destroyed before the fire was
brought under control. The roof
of the Beaver Laundry was de
stroyed. The laundry building
was. burned last winter and later
rebuilt of brick. j' ; -
For a time it was believed tho
entire city was in danger because
of low water pressure, and a call
was sent to Albany for additional
fire-fighting equipment, but later
it was believed that this was not
needed. -. 'I.
Several families whose, homes
were in the path of the fire be
gan moving out, and' several bus
iness houses ; made efforts to - get
out as much of their stock as pos
sible. '
The total loss ly Jthel fire was
estimated tonight at ! 180.000,
with partial Insurance. The prin
clpal loss was , to automobiles
stored In the garage where tho
fire originated. '
New Deposit of Radium
Found; Prices May (Tumble
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r NEW YORK, Sept, 6.4- (py the
Associated Press. ) Discovery in
Ferghana of what is reported as
probably the world's largest de
posit, of .radium, announced in
Petrograd today by the radium
institute, will prove a 'tremen
dous advantage to science and a
boon to the masses," it j was de
clared at the offce of the New
York Radium Institute today.
Belief was expressed that the
price of radium, as a result of
this discovery, might be brought
to the point where it could be put
into every hospital in the land
and made available to the masses
More than 30 states. It was. said,
have no , supply of radium, and
it was estimated that the element
is not used in more -than 10 per
cent of the cancer cases' it might
check. ! ' " .
Last fall radium prices tumbled
from H10, OQO a gram to $75,000
when it became known that radi
um bearing ore in extensive quan
tities had been discovered in the
Belgium Congo, Africa, j
during that week. j -
Corn Show Date Set
'There will be a corn show this
winter, ;to " be conducted by the
Chamber of Commerces agricni-
tural department. The j date set
ia November 21-24. The scope of
the show wil be considerably en
larged this year, and a boy's and
girls, club department j will be
added. A prize list similar to the
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COUMY
Seven Thousand Boxes of Hops and "Cecil;,
and BaL'ng Houses Abo go Wcr!nr.-n U
able to Check Flames Salem' Pumper -swers
Call-Some Insurance Held by O ;;::
Fire destroyed 17 hop kilns and other buildings bclcr.
to C. A. McLoughlin, two miles north of Independence, Li r
estimated loss of $50,000 eariy yesterday afternoon, i .
tically nothing was saved from the' blaza
In addition to the kilns; two cooling and baling hcu
one 100 by 60 feetan d the other 130 by SO feet; 7,000 bo
of hops; 8,000 yards of hop cloth and eight tons -of bu!;I
were entirely consumed. ,.
Beginning of the End Is.Seen
When Arizona Sends '
No Report
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. . -The
: department of Arizona has
dropped out of -, the ranks of "the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Simple, white marker, which
was to have indicated the loca
tion of the Arizona delegation in
the convention - meetings, stood in
one corner of the auditorium hall
unclaimed today. Against the
wall It rested and each time the
roll of departments was called
there was no answer from A ri
zona. . -v. . , '
There was significance . In the
failure of Arizona to report. It
signalized the beginning of the
end of the Grand Army of the Re
public. Never before in the fcis-
tory of the encampments has any
department failed to send dele
gates to the encampment or report
to the officers the reason for such
failure. No report has come from
Arizona. ,
Gaylor'M. Saltzberger of Van
wert, Ohio, was unanimously elect
ed commander in chief of the na
tional Grand Army, of the Repub
lic shortly before 7 p. m, today
after announcement had - been
made earlier that the election had
been postponed until tomorrow
morning.
A heated debate developed fol
lowing introduction of a resolu
tion sponsored by the New York
department, which when fi
nally adopted will permit the
Sons of Veterans to attend
post meetings, but will not
permit them a vote In the
deliberations of the organization.
Pointing to the flag of the de
partment fo Arizona which stood
in one corner of the platform,
where it had been placed at the
opening of the encampment still
waiting to ' be unfurled marking
the first time in history that a de
partment flag has not been car
ried in the annual - parade. Com
mander in chief James W. Willett
urged the adoption of a resolution
which would care for the Arizona
situation. .
"The flight of time has taken
with it so many members of the
Arizona post," he said, "that the
post flag stands furled, because of
the scattered handful of com
rades in, that district are not nu
merically strong enough to sup
port a post. We have before us
resolution asking for the revis
ion of rules to enable the forma
tion of 1 a provisional ' department
nnder the direct jurisdiction of
the national body, that ' the com
rades may be taken care of, and
the Arizona flag unfurled." .
Vote on the measure was un
necessary and in next year's, pa
rade the flag of the department of
Arizona will again float over tbe
blue of the regular army uni
forms of the Civil war. ,
AT SEASIDE
SILVERTON, Or., Sept. 6.
(Special , to The Statesman)
Those going from1 Silverton to
Seaside to attend the American
Legion convention were Carl Mo
ser, commander of the Silverton
Post, Lewis Hall; . Mr. and Mrs.
C. Johnson, John Elder, George
Anderson,' George Towe, Mr.'and
Mrs. Clarence Rosheim.
LICE if
LOSS'I
A loss of $50,000 is the f
mate made by 'Mr. McLouh::
Others familiar with hops dec!
that each of the kilns would r
resent a loss of $3,000, ma' :
$51,000 for the kilns, while 7,i
boxes of hops,-with 12 pound-, '
the box, would represent a 1
of about $42,000, making the t
tal loss $93,000 or more.
t Though-there -were 20 men f
ployed aad workings around t
kilna at the time the; fire sts rt
they were unable to -stop t
spread of the flames owing to t
excessive "dryness of the hi:
ings. The fire is believed to 1
started in some dried hops la t
of the kilns. All of the t u ::
ings were equipped with v.
extinguishers and , bucket? i.
barrels fflled with water t. : .
hand. 'Fanned by a small tr
the flames soon spread nzl 1
after kiln caught from the 1,
sparks.. An-Independence. c!
reported picking up "tari:.:
cinders in hia front yari, t
miles away.
Both the Independence an 3 f
lem lire department rearer :
to the emergency eall that v
sent out., i The Salem pur :
made 'the trip to the eonf:
tion in just ,15 " minutes, x
backed the pumper to a near-I
creek. Its work , was coni:
chlefly to wetting down t
smouldering piles of debris at ' .
extinguishing - several large ri".
of cordwood that were ablaze. I
tween:40 and 50 acres of grt
land surrounding the - hop k'.
were burned. over before fun:
spread was prevented.
In speaking of his loss after i
fire, Mr. McLoughlin said that !
was partially, covered by 1
ance. " and would begin mak
plans for building next sprl-'-
as to be in readiness to handle t
1924 crop of hops. He estlns:
that It would cost at least :
000 to replace the buildings a' -
and that the remainder of hlj .
timated loss of $50,000 -was rej r
sented by stoves, pipes, sur; "
and other incidental eoulDmr '
Mr. McLoughlin was sitting la
bank in Independence when 1
was notified of the fire.
Heat from .the burningbui: "
ings was bo intense that the pa.
ment, several hundred feet av :
was sticky, a sUge driver rer :;
ed when - he reached - the' Sal"
stage terminal station.
DEW STREET 1IL
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Ceremony to Accbmpar
Dedication of Way. Thru
Highway Addition
The highway addition road ;:
be formally opened at 6 o'clc
Wednesday. Sept. 12. The pav2
is completed and on that day v, ;
be dry enough' foi traffic 1.
completion of this road; marks
two-year campaign on the part
the Chamber of Commerce, at t
time Fred Erlxon was arroir
chairman of the committee to :
cure tbia much desired In rra
ment. He has worked for t
years and on next Wednesday t
see tne completion or nu wc
The celebration will only 1: '
short time, but will be In L.
with the spirit of -the : occ::
Mayor Giesy will make a :
talk, as also will Roy Klc -In -
J. C. Perry, ... president il t
Chamber of Commerce. Alor ?
new . street ; one ; house U t'
hAtno Mntnirffl. and at. 1
I dozen more are in conte:-;'
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